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Sustenance
by Bridget Holtom
What sustains your activism and fuels your fire for hope and change in the world today? What is burnout? How do we look after ourselves and each other while caring for others and the other-than-humans on earth? How can we move from capitalist ideas of self-care to radical circles of collective care and love?
Episodes
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Episode 12: Plant tending
A super short and sweet and to be honest very impromptu musing on the reciprocal relationship between plants and those that choose to tend them. Thanks to Rosanna Morris and the Land Workers Alliance for their incredible activism and generous permission to share their images for this show.
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Episode 11: Foraging
This episode is an introduction into foraging and herbal medicine. An introduction from someone who is still humbly learning what she can from her grandparents, from elders, authors, teachers, peers and from the plants themselves. There is so much life at our feet. So many wild, edible things to...
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Practice 10: Forest Bathing
Shinrin Yoku is the Japanese art of forest bathing. Shinrin in Japanese means “forest,” and yoku means “bath.” So shinrin-yoku means bathing in the forest atmosphere, or taking in the forest through our senses. The scientific benefits of this practice and related so-called nature connection...
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Practice 09: Grounding Practices
Three simple grounding practices to self-soothe, reduce symptoms of panic and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. These tools may be helpful for yourself or to share with others by showing someone you care for how to calm themselves down and return to their bodies at a distance. You can...
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Practice 08: Capacitar Tai Chi
Capacitar is a collection of movement, breathing and acupressure practices that aim to reconnect people with their own wisdom and capacity. It is designed to help people heal from trauma and to find the courage to challenge oppressive systems and come together in a spirit of empowerment.…
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Practice 07: Water Ritual
Water is sacred. Water is life. Water sustains us. What if we gave our lives to the life-giving source that sustains us? What if we gave our blood, sweat and tears to protect our rivers, lakes and oceans? Many people have a relationship with water that somehow sustains, soothes, renews and...
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Practice 06: Altar Space
This is a short practice to help you create a sacred space that is somehow meaningful to you. An altar that does not appropriate other cultures but acknowledges the lineages from which practices, plants and objects come. A place to support your journey of rest, recovery, solidarity and resistance.
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Practice 05: Dream Tending
We have been dreamed into being by our mothers and fathers and in many ways we live lives beyond the wildest dreams of our not-so-distant ancestors. For people who have had to fight to survive in our racist, transphobic, sexist society, dreaming is an act of rebellion. Dreaming can be a radical…
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Practice 04: Radical Body Love
In societal contexts that can dissociate us from our bodies, and try to sell us what it means to be beautiful, it is radical to show ourselves, our bodies and our friends, lovers and communities attention, care and love. And when the media narrows the definition of beauty to exclude so many…
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Practice 03: Love Letters
If you like writing letters, like I do, then you will love this practice of writing love letters to yourself every full moon. If I had to choose to share only one practice from all the practices that have helped me recover from despair and depression, writing letters to my future self would be…
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Practice 02: Collective-Care Toolkit
How do we stay sane in a society that is sick? How do we work in a world that doesn't work? This practice will accompany you while you create your own box of 'tools' to stay well. You will finish with a 'toolkit' or 'toolbox' of some sort, but it will look and be completely unique to you.
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Practice 01: Spirals of Sustenance
What brings you life? What encourages you? What are the things deaden you? In this first episode, Sustenance Radio host Bridget Holtom shares a 30 minute practice which helps you to see what sustains or drains your energy. This practice helps to identify activities, things, people, places,...
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Episode 07 : Eco-Poetry with Priya Huffman
In this interview, Priya Huffman and Sustenance Radio host, Bridget Holtom, explore the work of the eco-poets and their place in walking the line between hope and despair. Eco-poetry is the name given to a genre of poetry that speaks to /and of / our relationship to the natural world. In a period...
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Episode 06 : Poetry as Power with Janet Marie Rogers
"Reclaim the culture that is rightfully yours. Use the language you have inherited. Our mission is to empower people to take action. " Join Sustenance Radio host Bridget Holtom in a conversation with Janet Marie Rogers about what it means to find your voice and speak truth to power. How can…
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Episode 05: Swimming As Sustenance with Carrie Saxifrage
In her book, The Big Swim, Carrie Saxifrage shares 12 ideas and actions that sustain her, while she works to sustain the world we live in. She circles around big questions of how species might survive the sixth extinction, or avert catastrophic climate change. She shares how swimming is something...
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Episode 04 : Swimming as Resistance with Rama Delarosa
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean" Arthur C. Clarke The oceans sustains us in so many invisible ways, how do we save and sustain the sea in return? The loss of keystone species such as salmon will impact our coast and more-than-human communities in ways…
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Episode 03 : Part 4 : Koksilah Music Festival with Emily Doyle-Yamaguchi
Emily Doyle-Yamaguchi and Sustenance Host Bridget Holtom talk about what it means to them to take part in a movement for change, to stand together in solidarity. They navigate with honesty some messy but necessary questions about privilege, accountability and equity in community. We are all...
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Episode 03 : Part 3 : Koksilah Music Festival with Meeka Noelle Morgan
When are we surviving and when are we thriving? What positions of privilege in society enable some people to take a break while others shoulder the burden of struggle and survival? The horrific history of residential schooling, genocide and cultural repression of First Nations People in so-called...
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Episode 03 : Part 2 : Koksilah Music Festival with Mob Bounce
We have so many heartbeats, but we only have so many. How do you spend yours? How can you wake up to the possibility of what you can do to make your life speak. Listen to the rhythm of your life and use your feet to dance to the drum beat. Join Sustenance Radio host Bridget Holtom for a...
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Episode 03 : Part 1 : Koksilah Music Festival with La kwala ogwa Emma Joye Frank
“This is all we’ve got, its a beautiful planet we live on…from the waters of Cowichan Bay and all the way to the rivers of the Koksilah and Cowichan Rivers, that is truly a powerful, powerful medicine within itself”. The opening words of this special episode are those spoken in the opening…
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Episode 02 : Lean on Me with Lea-Dee Jenelle Huppe
Learning to look after ourselves means learning to lean on others while being someone to lean on. All their life, LD has been a loving caregiver. When a doctor asked: “when are you going to start taking care of you?” it was the wake up call they needed to take a break and embark on a journey of...
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Episode 01 : Wider Circles with Rising Appalachia
What sustains your activism and fuels your fire for hope and change in the world today? What is burnout? How do we look after ourselves and each other in an unequal society? Singer-songwriter sisters Chloe and Leah from the band, Rising Appalachia, answer challenging questions about their…
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What sustains your activism and fuels your fire for hope and change in the world today? What is burnout? How do we look after ourselves and each other while caring for others and the other-than-humans on earth? How can we move from capitalist ideas of self-care to radical circles of collective care and love?
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Bridget Holtom
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What sustains your activism and fuels your fire for hope and change in the world today? What is burnout? How do we look after ourselves and each other while caring for others and the other-than-humans on earth? How can we move from capitalist ideas of self-care to radical circles of collective care...
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